Before marketplace insurance and the Healthy Michigan Plan became available under the Affordable Care Act in the last year, almost none of the guests at the HOPE Hospitality and Warming Center in Pontiac had health insurance.

In a year that mostly favored Republicans, voters in Michigan and Oakland County stuck to some of their ticket-splitting ways in last Tuesday’s election, giving Republican Gov. Rick Snyder a second term but voting to send Democrat Gary Peters to the U.

Had he not seen the big yellow dot Jim Kaza might not be the owner of Sail Time Detroit – which is a company out of Shore Club Marina that sells memberships for people who want to sail but do not want to purchase a sailboat.

State Fire Inspector Brian Davis looked over aisles of fireworks this week at a Waterford Township store where boxes displayed names such as “Disturbing the Peace,” “Apocalypse Now,” “Critical Mass” and “Breaking Bad.

ROCHESTER — Clipboard and pen in hand, civil engineer Amy Trahey checked in early June to see how far the corrosion had advanced since the last time she inspected the Orion Road bridge over Paint Creek in March, and investigated the holes on the northeast side of the bridge.

After almost three years of legislative negotiating the Agricultural Act of 2014, or Farm Bill, has come home. The Michigan Farm Bureau has projected its costs to be $489 billion over the next four years.

Pete Trzos is in limbo. Nearly 16 months after the medical marijuana dispensary he opened in Holly — with village approval — was promptly raided, the case against him is on hold in Oakland County Circuit Court.